News and interesting stuff about the world of Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts
The dedicated folks at Lee Mendelson Film Productions are back with their second new Vince Guaraldi album of 2026 - the complete score for the 1974 Peanuts special It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown . The 21 track album includes the full 15 cue score for It's a Mystery , plus four alternate and unused tracks along with two cover tunes performed by Vince Guaraldi and his musical compatriots. In the…
Lee Mendelson, Charles M. Schulz and Bill Melendez celebrate their Emmy Award victory for A Charlie Brown Christmas . It’s common knowledge that A Charlie Brown Christmas won both an Emmy Award, for Outstanding Achievement in Children’s Programming; and the even more prestigious Peabody Award, for the “gentleness [with which this] little gem of a show faithfully and sensitively introduced to…
Streaming service Apple TV - exclusive home to both classic animated Peanuts television specials and newer ones commissioned by Apple - is bringing fans a lot of goodies this summer, announcing a new season of an existing series, a new special, and the streaming debut of two classic series. First up, on Friday, June 26, 2026, is a second season of Apple's Camp Snoopy , the show featuring the…
If you haven't checked out our informative Peanuts FAQ for awhile, now would be an excellent time. During the past few weeks, we made significant updates to half a dozen sections, and major updates to the sections devoted to theme parks, movies, trading cards, POGs and several sub-sections of music. We also added two entirely new sections: • 4.10 How many different roles has Woodstock played? (a…
In April 1951, Vince Guaraldi gave his first known professional performance, which means 2026 marks 75 years of Vince Guaraldi's music. As part of the commemoration, Lee Mendelson Film Productions will release the complete soundtracks from two Peanuts television specials - It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown (1976) and Charlie Brown's All Stars (1966) - together on one album, arriving March 20, 2026.…
It's the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas , which first aired back in December 9, 1965 on CBS. This year, it streams for free on Apple TV+ this weekend only , Saturday, December 13 and Sunday, December 14, 2025. You don't need an Apple device to stream the special for free. The Apple TV app is also available for a variety of streaming devices such as Roku and Amazon Fire, on several…
Christmas is coming, and so is FiveCentsPlease.org 's tradition of counting down to the Big Day with the Peanuts gang. Starting Friday, November 28 and continuing every day through December 25, our home page will feature a different, seasonally themed single panel. New Christmas countdown panels are no longer being made, so this year we've reached into the archives to bring you historical panels…
A reminder that the free streaming window for A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on Apple TV is this weekend only, Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16, 2025. To stream the special for free, an Apple device isn't your only option. The Apple TV app is also available for a variety of streaming devices such as Roku and Amazon Fire, on several different smart TV brands, and for portable devices…
The Beagle Scout Snoopy balloon will return for a third year in the 99th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, which will air live on NBC-TV from 8:30 a.m. until 12 p.m. ET/PT on Thursday, Nov. 27. The parade will begin on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and conclude at Macy's Herald Square flagship store. The parade broadcast also will stream on Peacock, with an encore on NBC-TV at 2 p.m. ET/PT. The…
Today marks 75 years since Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip debuted in newspapers on October 2, 1950. As readers of this blog no doubt know, it debuted as a daily-only strip in just seven newspapers, but within a year and a half added a full-color Sunday strip, and ultimately grew to a distribution of 2,600 newspapers, as well as numerous book collections of the strip, a series of…
Subscription service Apple TV+, the only place where you can stream the classic Peanuts television specials, has announced the weekends when you can stream the three best known Peanuts holiday shows for free, without a subscription. The free streaming window is just 2 days for each special, but it's better than no free option at all. The free streaming dates for 2025 are: It's the Great Pumpkin,…
1968 was an election year, and Charles Schulz acknowledged this with a series of newspaper strips that featured Snoopy and a flock of “proto-Woodstocks” carrying campaign banners promoting candidates identified solely as “!!,” ”?,” “$” and many other droll symbols. Hallmark’s lenticular “Snoopy for President” buttons became an instant hot seller, as was a plush Snoopy doll wearing a “Snoopy for…
Producer Phil Gernhard rushed The Royal Guardsmen back into Fuller Studios in January 1967, to record “The Return of the Red Baron,” which he co-wrote with brothers John Yates and James Lee McCullough. Although not quite an identical clone, this sequel had the same military cadence and delivery, and the same mid-point key change. But the “Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more” refrain gave way…
This has been the summer for long-gestating projects: first a thorough study of British artist/cartoonist Derek Chittock’s Peanuts -inspired newspaper strip, Benny , and now an even deeper dive into the meteoric rise of a garage band out of Ocala, Florida, back in the 1960s. We speak of The Royal Guardsmen, of course, and nobody reading this blog needs to be reminded of their connection to Peanuts…
As part of this year's celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Peanuts, on October 7, 2025, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be releasing Peanuts: 75th Anniversary Ultimate TV Specials Collection , a big box set containing 40 of the classic Peanuts television specials, ranging from 1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas to Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown from 2011. The set will be…
Apple TV+ has announced another new Peanuts special, Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical , is coming to the subscription streaming service on Friday, August 15, 2025. (The show was originally publicized as premiering July 18, but a couple of weeks before that date, Apple quietly delayed it by a month.) Here's the press release from Apple: Get ready to gather around the campfire with the Peanuts gang…
Not too long ago, a UK correspondent brought our attention to an obscure British newspaper strip titled Benny , because he felt it resembled Peanuts more than a little. He sent along a few examples, and he definitely had a point. As it happens, those “few examples” were pretty much the only Benny strips readily available on the Web. That’s likely because the feature appeared in only one newspaper:…
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Emmy-award winning show You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown , Lee Mendelson Film Productions have announced that the complete Vince Guaraldi soundtrack to the 1975 Peanuts animated special will be released on July 11, 2025. In You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown , Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty compete in a charity motocross race, trying to overcome the…
All sorts of things and events will help mark this year's 75th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts newspaper strip, but Abrams ComicArts likely will take center stage with this lavish coffee table book. The Essential Peanuts — an opulent hardcover in a slipcase — is assembled by Mark Evanier , and presents the most iconic and essential Peanuts comic strips with fresh historical and cultural…
Following the Record Store Day LP announcement from a few weeks ago, Craft Recordings has announced a new, expanded edition of Vince Guaraldi's first album of Peanuts music, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown , will be coming to CD and digital as well. The new release is set to arrive on April 11, 2025. (While the press release says April 4, April 11 is the date listed for pre-orders at…
Three news items for your ears! Record Store Day 2025 is coming Saturday, April 12 and there will be not one, but two, Vince Guaraldi exclusive vinyls available that day. As mentioned in an earlier blog post , the complete soundtrack to It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown will be released on March 21, 2025. Then on April 12, Record Store Day, Lee Mendelson Film Productions is releasing a special…
It's the depths of winter now, but an exciting sign of the forthcoming spring has arrived - the complete original Vince Guaraldi soundtrack for the 1974 television special It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown will be hatching on March 21, 2025. The album is available for pre-order on CD and black vinyl at Amazon and the MVD Shop , as well as other online retailers and your local record store. It…
The very first countdown panel: December 2, 1963 [ Authors’ note: 5CP posts generally are informal, like newspaper press releases. But as was the case with the original post on this subject, and because of the way this particular saga unfolded, a first-person approach seemed best. As a result, Derrick once again is stepping out from behind the curtain.] To paraphrase Al Pacino, in The Godfather,…
Memorize your pageant lines - A Charlie Brown Christmas streams for free on Apple TV+ this weekend only, Saturday, December 14 and Sunday, December 15, 2024. The classic Peanuts holiday show won't be broadcast on over-the-air television this year. To stream the special for free, you don't need an Apple device. The Apple TV+ app is available for a variety of streaming devices such as Roku and…
Ho ho ho! FiveCentsPlease.org's annual tradition of counting down the days to Christmas with the Peanuts gang returns on Friday, November 29. Our home page will feature a different seasonally themed comic each day through December 25. New Christmas countdown panels are no longer being made, so this year we've reached into the archives to bring you historical panels from 1985. They haven't been…